Category: 3. Beyond the project

  • Autopsy of an LHC beam dump | home.cern

    Autopsy of an LHC beam dump | home.cern

    Autopsy of an LHC beam dump | home.cern By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy

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  • LS3 schedule change

    LS3 schedule change Since the publication of this article, there has been a change to this schedule. Click here to view the updated schedule.  LHC / HL-LHC Plan: link Following the recommendations of both the LHCC (LHC Experiments Committee) and the CMAC (CERN Machine Advisory Committee), a change to the LHC schedule was presented by CERN management to Council and

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  • CERN: Progress and prospects for the future of accelerator physics

    CERN: Progress and prospects for the future of accelerator physics | Innovation News Network By Georgie Whitworth (Innovation News Network Editor) One of CERN’s major ongoing focuses is the upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The project aims to improve the capabilities of the original Large Hadron Collider by increasing its luminosity by a factor

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  • Improved resistive plate chambers demonstrator – A step towards HL-LHC | CMS News

    Improved resistive plate chambers demonstrator – A step towards HL-LHC | CMS News By Mehar Ali Shah in CMS News The installation of a new prototype of  CMS muon chambers was completed last December. With these installations, the CMS detector is taking further steps towards the HL-LHC era at CERN. Read in CMS News Read more

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  • Flexible and accessible, the HiRadMat facility celebrates its tenth anniversary | Accelerating News

    Flexible and accessible, the HiRadMat facility celebrates its tenth anniversary | Accelerating News

    Flexible and accessible, the HiRadMat facility celebrates its tenth anniversary | Accelerating News By Nikolaos Charitonidis and Pascal Simon (CERN) in Accelerating News Since its construction in 2011, HiRadMat has been a unique experimental facility for testing materials under beam impact. Read in Accelerating News Read more news

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  • LS2 report: The new LHC collimators | home.cern

    LS2 report: The new LHC collimators | home.cern By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern By Anaïs Schaeffer – Upgrades of the LHC collimation system, which began during LS1, have continued during LS2. Sixteen new collimators have been installed in the accelerator over the last three years in preparation not only for the accelerator’s next period

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  • A new schedule for the LHC and its successor

    A new schedule for the LHC and its successor The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year. Read on home.cern Read more news

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  • Framatome awarded contract to support research at CERN

    Framatome awarded contract to support research at CERN Framatome has been awarded a contract from the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) to support research that will inform the development of new materials to be used in the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, a major upgrade to the existing Large Hadron Collider. Full details in Framatome Press

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  • Sensor used at CERN could help gravitational-wave hunters

    Sensor used at CERN could help gravitational-wave hunters Unlike traditional seismometers, which detect ground motions through their effect on weights hanging from springs, the precision laser inclinometer (PLI) measures their effect on the surface of a liquid. Read on home.cern and CERN Alumni Read more news

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  • Young researchers become innovators

    Young researchers become innovators Early this year, the HL-LHC and the FCC teams organized for the first time an Innovation Course for young researchers in their last year of association with CERN, CERN Bulletin, Indico. Read more news

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